With 60 percent of his clients as journalists, literary agent Howard Yoon knows what it takes to turn a 700-word article into a bestselling book. But that’s not to say it’s easy for journalists to get that coveted book deal. ...

How social media is helping journalists and community groups to get their word out.

Newspaper, magazine, broadcast — it’s not a secret that these traditional ways of storytelling are shifting and changing with the times. No longer is it sufficient for journalists to be generally asking, “How can I tell the story better?” Today, ...

The Heartland Project, a program initially designed to increase news coverage in minorities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) communities in Nebraska, has also become a gateway of opportunities for reporters. The project launched last summer when the Asian American ...

Back in the days of 56K baud modems, the Online News Association formed to support the small but growing world of digital journalists.  ONA’s structure is similar to AAJA, including about 30 chapters started around the world since 1999, and ...

Newspaper reporter was ranked as the worst job in 2013 by the Web site careercast.com.Pouring thousands of dollars for a master’s degree in journalism has raised a big question: Is it worth it to go to graduate school? Journalism schools ...

It’s been a rocky month for the journalism industry.  Within the first half of August, journalists were laid off by the hundreds, media investments were withdrawn, papers were bought and sold and a new digital media venture celebrated its first ...

Lament over staff and content cutting have been at the center of the media recession. In May, the Chicago Sun-Times fired its entire photo staff, letting go of veterans like Pulitzer Prize-winner John H. White. A month later, the Oregonian ...

Valerie Plesch heads to work inside the Associated Press building and takes the elevator to the 14th floor. Tucked away in a room along a back corridor is the New York bureau of Al Jazeera English.  Plesch, 33, has been ...

In the late 1990s, Robert Hernandez pitched for the first time the idea of putting audio and photos together to his boss at the San Francisco Examiner. The concept was considered crazy at the time — the word “multimedia” didn’t ...